Client 9 By Amy Taubin Alex Gibney's new doc delves into Eliot Spitzer's public virtues and private vice
Paul Haggis By Scott Foundas The director of The Next Three Days has a lot of explaining to do
WHITE MATERIAL By Amy Taubin Claire Denis ponders colonial denial in strife-torn Africa
ISABELLE HUPPERT By Joan Dupont The star of White Material talks about her risk-taking career
Somewhere By Nicolas Rapold How close to home is Sofia Coppola's father-daughter story of Hollywood malaise?
Philippe Grandrieux By Haden Guest The dark visions of a filmmaker pushing to the limits of perception—and beyond
Alejandro González Iñárritu By Glenn Kenny The implacable march of the New Humanism continues with the overwrought and portentous Biutiful
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno By Richard Combs How one project went over the edge—twice
EDITOR'S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20: Best Films Directed by Claude Chabrol
Fade Out Film Comment’s first editor Gordon Hitchens remembered by Nadine Covert
The Accidental AuteUrist Claude Chabrol by Andrew Sarris
Sound & Vision Chico & Rita by Gary Giddins & Vik Muniz by Chris Chang
Encore William Dieterle’s The Last Flight
Festivals Venice by Olaf Möller; Locarno by Chris Darke; Toronto by Mark Olsen, Nicole Armour, and Gavin Smith; Reykjavik by Laura Kern; Vancouver by Robert Koehler
Screenings The King’s Speech by Scott Foundas; 127 Hours by Paul Brunick; Black Swan by José Teodoro; The Tempest by Violet Lucca
Short Takes All Good Things & Blue Valentine by Laura Kern; The Illusionist by Nicolas Rapold; Night Catches Us by Nicolas Rapold; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale by Chris Chang; Tiny Furniture by Chris Chang
Home Movies Bruce Baillie Vols. 1 & 2 by Chuck Stephens
Readings Mark McElhatten on Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000
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November/December 2010
FEATURES
Client 9
By Amy Taubin
Alex Gibney's new doc delves into Eliot Spitzer's public virtues and private vice
Paul Haggis
By Scott Foundas
The director of The Next Three Days has a lot of explaining to do
WHITE MATERIAL
By Amy Taubin
Claire Denis ponders colonial denial in strife-torn Africa
ISABELLE HUPPERT
By Joan Dupont
The star of White Material talks about her risk-taking career
Somewhere
By Nicolas Rapold
How close to home is Sofia Coppola's father-daughter story of Hollywood malaise?
Philippe Grandrieux
By Haden Guest
The dark visions of a filmmaker pushing to the limits of perception—and beyond
Alejandro González Iñárritu
By Glenn Kenny
The implacable march of the New Humanism continues with the overwrought and portentous Biutiful
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
By Richard Combs
How one project went over the edge—twice
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR'S LETTER
OPENING SHOTS
News, Hot Property, Alex Cox’s 10,000 Ways to Die, Site Specifics, The Trivial Top 20: Best Films Directed by Claude Chabrol
Fade Out
Film Comment’s first editor Gordon Hitchens remembered by Nadine Covert
The Accidental AuteUrist
Claude Chabrol by Andrew Sarris
Sound & Vision
Chico & Rita by Gary Giddins & Vik Muniz by Chris Chang
Encore
William Dieterle’s The Last Flight
Festivals
Venice by Olaf Möller; Locarno by Chris Darke; Toronto by Mark Olsen, Nicole Armour, and Gavin Smith; Reykjavik by Laura Kern; Vancouver by Robert Koehler
Screenings
The King’s Speech by Scott Foundas; 127 Hours by Paul Brunick; Black Swan by José Teodoro; The Tempest by Violet Lucca
Short Takes
All Good Things & Blue Valentine by Laura Kern; The Illusionist by Nicolas Rapold; Night Catches Us by Nicolas Rapold; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale by Chris Chang; Tiny Furniture by Chris Chang
Home Movies
Bruce Baillie Vols. 1 & 2 by Chuck Stephens
Readings
Mark McElhatten on Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000
Purchase this issue